Jeremiah 9:21
Jeremiah chapter 9 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Context
v.20Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
v.21This passage
v.22Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 21:14
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
- Jeremiah 15:7
And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
- Ezekiel 9:5
And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;
- Amos 6:10
And when a man’s uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.
- Jeremiah 6:11
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.